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That is not likely. "Abandonment is a joke," scoffs Folly Beach Mayor Richard Beck, noting that his island is almost completely developed and that tourism is just too valuable an income source. Indeed, unless it is voluntary, any restriction of land use, even for good environmental reasons, must respect , property rights. Two recent Supreme Court decisions served as timely reminders that local governments have a constitutional responsibility to protect property owners. Even so, those who resist a balanced policy of coastal management, whether they are motivated by greed or by genuine concern for the well-being of coastal communities, will...
Sometimes you realize that right where you are, wherever you are, you are on a tourist spot. Take another look at the familiar. Tourism...
...refusal to abandon the English system of measurement in favor of the metric system is shortsighted. Our stubbornly clinging to feet and pounds has a negative effect on everything from tourism to machine-tool exports. Britain, Canada and Australia have changed successfully. Are Americans any less intelligent or adaptable...
Perhaps nowhere is the resurgence of tourism more dramatic than in Greece, where the number of vacationing Americans plunged by some 70% last year, after the 1985 hijacking of a TWA passenger jet en route from Athens to Rome. The incident was followed by a State Department travel warning regarding security problems at the airport there. Now flights to Athens through mid-July are heavily booked on TWA and sold out on Olympic Airways, the Greek flag carrier. Epirotiki, the largest operator of island-hopping cruise ships in Greece, is predicting a tripling of its business...
...Some tourism officials fear that Europe is popular now only because, as one Greek travel agent put it, "nothing has happened this year." So a brief wave of anxiety was provoked by terrorist incidents in Rome two weeks ago, when rockets were fired at the British and U.S. embassies and a car bomb went off outside the American compound. But since little damage was done and no one was injured, vacationers took the news in stride. It will apparently take more serious trouble than that to spoil the festive return of Americans to Europe...